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Color Selection

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This tutorial will teach you how to select and colour one part of your image. An example is shown below.

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1. Open any image of your choice. Select the Lasso Tool, or Polygonal Lasso Tool.

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2. Highlight the part that you want to be colourised or greyscaled. In this tutorial, the part that I select will be colourised.

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3. Press CTRL+C to copy the selection. Make a new layer, and paste the selection there.

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4. Select the layer that you want to be grey scaled. Then press Image > Adjustments > Desaturate

That's it. This is a basic tutorial, but sometimes the effects turn out to be quite effective if you want to make something stand out from its background.

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